Rhianon is an architect, researcher and educator working across the expanded fields of architecture and urbanism. She believes in the social production of space and the potential to shape our environments in which we live towards a future fuelled by togetherness and abundance.

Her work explores the role of the architect in acknowledging and supporting practices of resistance that nurture care, imagination, production and making kin with the more-than-human, as explored by Donna Haraway. Her current research interests include participative city-making, the creation of civic infrastructure to support creativity, the role of the feminine within construction, the spatial legacies of squatting practices, experimentation through modes of production and material research, and the re-use of spaces in complex environments. 

Rhianon has experience of working in a number of ways. As a traditional architect designing at a range of scales from the small scale domestic to larger scale public spaces and infrastructure. Through working in a carpentry workshop for a number of years she understands what is needed to bring together the design of a thing, and its construction and materiality. She also has first hand knowledge of leading multiple stakeholders, often with conflicting interests, in complex situations where a strategic eye and a listening ear is needed to steer a project forward. She has experience defining the scope, methods and direction of a number of published research projects. 

Most recently Rhianon has been an Associate Lecturer within the Spatial Practices Department at Central Saint Martins, teaching fifth year students on the MArch Architecture course. She is also a Research Fellow on a cross-disciplinary EU Horizon 2020 funded research project, T-Factor: Participatory Urban Futures, Co-Creating Cities Through Temporary Urbanism, exploring the ways in which participatory city making and citizen voices can be supported in areas undergoing large-scale regeneration. She has been an Associate Lecturer and visiting lecturer at the University of East London on both BSc Architecture and MRes Reading the Neoliberal City courses, and a visiting lecturer at Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden. She has also been a visiting critic at London Metropolitan CASS School of Architecture, University of Sydney, Australia, and Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Rhianon is a fully qualified Architect in the UK, registered with the ARB. She holds a BSc Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a Masters in Architecture from the Royal College of Art. She is currently a Director of not-for-profit critical design practice public works.

She has previously worked with artists JAMESPLUMB, interior designer Deidra Hodgson, product designer Philippe Malouin, carpentry workshop & fabricators Aldworth James & Bond, as part of the in-house architecture team for fashion brand Burberry, with artist & design futures researcher Chris Woebken, architecture & design practice LOT-EK and many others. 

rhianonmorganhatch [at] gmail.com